Decatur High School - Ravelings Yearbook (Decatur, IN)

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DEPHCATS© JE, THE STAFF, DEDICATE this volume of Ravelings to each and every grad that has gone forth from this high school building. Since we, the class of 1938, are the last of that host to be graduated from this, our present high school build- ing, we feel it fitting and proper to dedicate our book to all the graduates who made history within the walls of D. H. S. Nearly twenty years ago the first pictured faces of the class of ' 19 were hung in the corridors. Since that time, a long line of faces, happy and serious, have joined their ranks. They were the past; we are the present. In dedication to the past, we, the present, merge with them ; and may all our photographed faces lend, at least, some inspiration to the succeeding class- es — the future ! jWENTY YEARS AGO A NEW high school was erected to accommodate the growth of a jrapidly increasing student body that could no longer be accommodated in its old shell. Now, finding ourselves again in the same condition, we have liken- ed the growth of the student body and its needs for more spacious quarters to Oliver Wendell Holme ' s famous poem, The Chambered Nautilus. Still as the spiral grew. He left the past year ' s dwelling for the new — We hope that as we have grown in numbers, so have we advanced along educational lines as well. We have taken The Chambered Nautilus for our theme because we are leaving our old shell, in which we have spent many happy years, for the new.

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The Ravelin s 1938 DECATUR HIGH SCHOOL Decatur, Indiana CONTENTS Volume XXIV Chambered Nautilus Preface Dedication and Foreword 2 Decatur High School 3 Floor Plan of New Building 4 If It Hadn ' t Been For Them (Board of Education) 5 Where Can I Find The Superintendent? 6 He Is A Personal FriendOfMine 7 The Builders (Faculty) 8-9-10-11 Lunch Time At D. H. S. (School Scene) 12 Make Way For Tomorrow 13 Freshmen 14-15 Sophomores 16-17 Goodby Old Decatur High (School Scene) 18 Rapidly Progressing 19 Juniors 20-21 In Memory 22 Realization 23 Seniors 24-25-26-27 Facing The Morning Sun (School Scene) 28 Added Features 29 Journalistic In Views (Ravelings Staff) 30 The Quickest Way To A Man ' s Heart (Home Ec) 31 Screaming Sirens (Pep Champs) 32-33 They Howled To Beat The Band (Howling Hosts) 34 35 Won ' t You Step Into Our Office? (Commercial Club) 36-37 We Shall Have Music (Band) 38 Music Hath Charms (Glee Club) 39 The Curse Of The Incas (Senior Play) 40 Aunt Tillie Goes To Town (Junior Play) 41 Turf Terrors (Football — Varsity) 42 Hep! One! Two! (Football — Squad) 43 The Crowd Cheered Them (Basketball — Squad) 44 The Substitution (Basketball — Varsity) 45 Bats And Racquets (Spring Sports) 46 Not On The Curriculum 47 Naturally The Girls Played Too (G. A. A. ) 48-49 It Did Happen Here 50 An Old Spanish Custom 51 Appreciation To Advertisers 52 Advertising 53 to 82

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DECATUR HIGH SCHOOL, DECATUR, INDIANA ?!LD DECATUR HIGH SCHOOL stands at the corner of Fifth and Adams Streets. Under normal conditions it houses fifteen classrooms, an auditorium, and a gymnasium. Its trophy cases contain valuable displays and relics of pioneer days. The vision of Abraham Lincoln ' s statue, which stands at the entrance to the main corridor, has become en- shrined in the minds and hearts of hundreds and hund- reds of students. The spirit of the school was carried forth onto the football fields, the basketball floor, to track meets, tennis matches, and baseball games. Decatur High School, we know, is proud of the sports- manship displayed by the athletes who carried her banner. Within her walls, we studied, laughed, played, and just had general good times. Yes, and sometimes we wept. These memories are now priceless to us. The song of the buzz saw, the clang of the bell, the sound of the all-too-soon buzzer, the banging of locker doors, and the meetings in the assembly were a part of our lives ; we shall miss them ! 1